By chance I happen to be in Birmingham on one of the evenings when the lovely Nick Booth runs his social media surgeries in the fantastic Fazeley Studios.
And I’m helping out by showing some folk how to blog and post pictures.
I don’t normally partake, but hey it’s New Year’s Eve and this is spookily close to the truth. You are 29% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends…
I don’t work for free, that’s a firm rule. But when Helen asked me to help with making a series of podcasts with women in tech for International Women’s Day, I said yes without hesitation. I’m proud of the work we did today, all of us, in collaboration. I know that you’ll get great value out…
So this is the view pretty much backwards from the one I showed you yesterday. Those three square windows to the left of the ornate bit are ours (the windows are actually not square, they’re much longer, but you can’t see that at this angle). If anyone needs a floral-print mobile phone, I’m happy to…
This morning to a presentation on Rewerse (semantic stuff including a tool to do smart screen scraping – not sure about this, will blog later). Then a warm and dull hour with Factiva on taxonomy yawn – had a mad dash to find some food that I could eat – everything here was bread and…
I got a last minute invitation(thanks Steve!) to go and hear David Willetts speak at Demos this lunchtime. Here are my lightly edited notes – apologies for poor grammar, any mangling of Mr Willett’s rhetoric or translation of his argument as it passed through my dastardly liberal brain. He spoke on what we owe future…
No I’m not using adwords on this site, but I wanted to share the selection that came up on a ning social network I’ve just set up for SMC London. All there is on the page for reference is my picture and an introductory post from me, and the title with strap “If you get…